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Looking to the future, the Energy Department’s Building Technologies Office has published a report—Overview of Existing and Future Residential Use Cases for Connected Thermostats—which considers how connected thermostats might be used to advance residential energy efficiency efforts.

Virginia Tech is working with DOE to make BEMOSS a scalable, interoperable, plug-and-play building automation and energy management solution.

Energy-saving technologies available today could reduce commercial appliance consumption by 22 percent, with emerging technologies offering even bigger savings potential—36 percent.

DOE has announced a new partnership between ORNL and Siemens to seek innovative ideas for the use of personal “smart” devices to control such things as lighting and air conditioning in public spaces.